Quotes About Aspiration

I love the fact that every day I get to reimagine who I want to be.

Did I grow up wanting to clean houses?" She raised an eyebrow, as if checking that he had seriously asked that question. "Um, no. I wanted to be a professional scuba diver. But I had Tanze

I'm wondering whether any of you have reached a point where you can consider the prospect of life five years on. Where do you see yourself? What do you see yourself doing? Do

courage is the difference between dreaming of the life you want and living the life of your dreams

God made you to be great so He wants you to pursue greatness. But this pursuit must include trust and faith in Him. Your desire for God must be greater than your desire for success.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

Am I the same person that I dream about?

We want more than there is.

Wishing for a fantasy life is easier than the pursuit of real goals.

Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

We're all gonna die trying to get it right, so aim high, and aim true. —Vance Joy

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

I'm an optimist who keeps my goals narrow.

I would have liked to play the piano. Once at a concert an elderly lady leaned toward me: "You are a pianist, aren't you?"—"Unfortunately not, madam," I had to answer with regret. Even today, the thought that I don't play the piano and never will play it suffocates me, sometimes even more than the horrors, the dark river of my past carrying me through the years. I literally can't get over it.

signify an intention that I should become any more

How satisfied are you with your life? How does your life compare with the best possible life you could imagine for yourself?

I'm wasting my life … I haven't done anything worthwhile in years … I need to move somewhere else, do something else, anything … How come I'm not on the Sunday talk shows? How come I'm not in charge of something, like a business?

It was as if, having met so many of my own goals, some perverse organ of my brain was busy creating new, spurious ones.

The degree of unity aspired to in the total society is incompatible with human freedom and the right to disagree. Politics should be the mediation, not the suppression, of conflict.